Emerging genomic data and better understanding of European Food Safety Authority requirements will win probiotic health claims within “a year”, the EU science agency’s new health claims panel chief told us after a Frankfurt congress this morning.
Just days after its soy protein-cholesterol reduction health claim was writ into the European Union register of rejected claims, the soy industry has re-entered the game with a fresh submission it says has learnt hard lessons from last year’s EFSA rebuttal.
As the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) delivers hundreds of batch five general function health claim rejections to an ever-frustrated academic and commercial community, EFSA health claims panelist Ambroise Martin, PhD, tells NutraIngredients why...
About 250 highly concerned industry representatives have gathered at EFSA’s Parma headquarters today for a day-long health claims summit, with early reports this morning indicating there was little being said by EFSA that would encourage industry’s efforts...
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has issued an 18-page document that updates its approach to health claim assessment and which will form the basis of discussion at its stakeholders meeting in Parma on June 1.